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Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
These are users of existing products and services who come to find them deficient and start not only envisioning improvements, but building and using them. Von
Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson • Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
some form of complexity theory is required if we are to understand many of the intimate, and patently uncertain, interactions found in modern society.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
Neural Darwinism
David Rock, Linda J. Page • Coaching With the Brain in Mind
She is a “T-shaped person,” she said, one who has breadth, compared to an “I-shaped person,” who only goes deep, an analog to Dyson’s birds and frogs. “T-people like myself can happily go to the I-people with questions to create the trunk for the T,” she told me. “My inclination is to attack a problem by building a narrative. I figure out the funda
... See moreDavid Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
We should develop a mathematics to describe and use them, but we should not be too concerned about the underlying principles for how they are generated.
Geoffrey West • Scale
Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE)
J. Doyne Farmer • Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World
The most marvelous characteristic of some complex systems is their ability to learn, diversify, complexify, evolve.
Donella H. Meadows • Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller
These are all highly contestable statements.